Template:Selected anniversaries/April 8
1484: Polymath Johannes Trithemius publishes Chronicles of an Occult Cryptographer, for which he will win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1542: Johannes Schöner publishes Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer, for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1910: Kinetoscope used in series of math crimes, authorities name Skip Digits as person of interest.
1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.